When Carter got home from school she was ready to burst with her repressed emotions. She did not like having to keep everything quiet when she usually was able to tell people what was bothering her.
When she heard the news about Rosie's capture she had been filled with shock anger sadness as well as an unidentifiable emotion that presented itself in a way unfamiliar to her.
Now 2 hours later the emotions had faded away to make room for a dangerous new emotion a cold anger that coiled around her heart like a viper waiting for the moment when it could reveal itself and destroy everything around it. This was matched by the unknown emotion that carter did not even try to identify, this was because she had never felt it like this before. This emotion was love, this love would not help save Rosie, but it would save Carter.
But Carter did not have time to examine her emotions, her mind was consumed by her training, the only thing she could fall back on in a time of crisis. She kept up the act of normality as the school day crept by. She held the mask as the bus slowly took her home.
As soon as she stepped off the world became a blur of movement as she sprinted into her house opening door flying down hallways and pulling objects into a slim backpack. Everything went so fast that she barely knew what she pulled into her bag barely knew that she had packed several passports from various nations all with her face on them barely knew that she had concealed the equivalent of two thousand dollars in various currencies in the bag, she didn't even register the packing of several different sized knives but she did remember her decision to pack her father's .45 caliber handgun the one thing she never had hope to use outside of the shooting range.
When Carter finished packing she slung the backpack on to her shoulder and strode out onto the porch looking up the road for any sign of Shadow's car.
"Four minutes."
Carter spun around and her mouth dropped open as she noticed Shadow leaning against the wall.
Shadow walked towards her, "not bad"
"How long have you been there?"
" 'Bout six minutes," Shadow smirked, "you ran right by me."
Carter once again thanked God that this dark warrior was on her side because he seemed to be unnaturally skilled at anything he did.
"So Shadow where are we going first?" Carter asked
"first we go to Panama where we had hidden the princess and where she and, uh, Rosie were captured."
"Then?"
"Then we use what we find there to follow our missing persons to where ever they were taken."
[Santiago, Panama]
It was hot, even for a native of Louisiana. Carter felt the sun's rays beat down on her neck as she got out of the car Shadow had hotwired back at the airport. Now miles later the duo had stopped.
They had arrived.
Carter was the first to walk into the small hut that had previously been a safe place for the small blonde princess she had fought to save. Now this place was the spot where dangerous men had dragged the princess and more importantly, Rosie, off into a helicopter.
The marks were all there. The door swung crooked on its frame, two paths made in the dirt from large objects pulled across the floor, footprints that Carter could match up to a fight where three men had struggled with one girl and it had only taken a lone man to subdue the other.
Rosie had put up quite a fight. The hole in the wall could only be explained by a large head being smashed there.
But under the hole was where carter had spotted a small medal. She walked over and picked it up. On it was a seven pointed star surrounded by thirteen circles.
"The 20th Royal Guard of Alger," Carter breathed to herself. Shadow heard and looked at her.
"These men were from the royal guard of Alger the only division to be bribed into conducting operations for the Prime Minister of their parliament. It was these guys who attempted to kill us as we rescued the princess." Carter explained what she knew, "these guys are a unit of well organized unit of about fifty. They are poorly trained but that is more than made up for the genius of their commanders. This tells us that Rosie and the princess are in one of two places: the first and least likely for now is their base in the capitol of Alger, the royal palace, or the most probable and worst case, their hidden base in Siberia."
Shadow looked around, took a deep breath and sighed, "damn, that complicates things."
Carters questioning look promoted a smirk and an answer: "I'm not allowed to set foot on Russian soil due to the fact that I blasted my way into a GRU prison and ran off with a German who had offered to provide information. The GRU weren't too happy I did that and still hold a nasty grudge."
I finally got a new laptop after my dinosaur died and finally got the time to sit down and write. I apologize for the wait and I promise to upload a bunch of stuff I have written on paper I know low tech right. Please review I crave your comments and they will prompt me to write faster if I know people are reading
